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How Nonprofits Can Use Behavioral Science to Engage Supporters on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Social media is powerful because it leverages social influence – people trust information from those within their networks. The nonprofit Charity: Water does this exceptionally well by inviting their supporters to create their own fundraising campaign for the organization.

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Measuring World Hunger Day

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” It is a key theme in our book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” In this case study, there are many things that World Hunger Day could measure, but they focused on engagement and measuring along the ladder of engagement. Measuring World Hunger Day – a guest post by Geoff Livingston.

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Food Charities Create Networks of Resiliency with the Tackle Hunger Map

Tech Soup

But it's not that there isn't enough food to provide for those in need; it's a matter of getting the right food to where it is needed at food charities when the needs arise. The increased need continues to be seen across the country as families contend with rising costs of living.

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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

75% of Young Adults Gave to Charity Last Year, Study Finds – News – The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas – The new Millennial Donor Survey is out! "Charities They work in tandem with a nationwide network of member food banks in the fight to end hunger.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They even got to meet Keo Savon, the young Cambodian women that we are sending to college by donating the royalties from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” to the Sharing Foundation. Here’s some resources from VolunteerMatch if you want to volunteer your time to help out hunger organizations.

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Target Facebook Challenge: Ten Large Charities Compete for Votes To Divide the $3 Million Pot

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's called Bullseye Gives, a special Facebook page inviting folks to decide how they should allocate $3 million among ten large institutional charities, including: Parent Teacher Association Feeding America The Salvation Army American Red Cross National Parks Foundation Breast Cancer Research Foundation St.

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8 Nonprofit CEOs Who Tweet

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Networking Tool. Of course, if your CEO is going to Twitter, they have to be keep a consistent schedule and be authentic. @fredkrupp who is the CEO of the Environmental Defense Fund tweets about his organization's work to save the environment, plus is sharing interesting news articles or resources from his network of Twitter followers.

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